As always today was also a very tiring day for me but I am delighted that its Valentine's day, and for me it's a day for the dear and loved ones. I got some small presents for my friends and my sister, and they are preparing something special for the dinner.
I was coming back to Birmingham by train and it was full of lovely couples dressed in designer attires. The town centre was all red with the heart shaped balloons and glittering decorations, it was looking beautiful.
When I came home, I watched Indian news channel and they were full with news of people and parties opposing this wonderful day. In India we generally call them moral police. Now a days it's a trend or norm in India to do such kind of things to come on TV. There are many parties, political or non political that act as protectionist of Indian culture without knowing the essence of Indian culture. There were many incidents in different parts of India where innocent couples were beaten or manhandled and this shows how intolerant we are as a community. We Indians always boast about our culture, but does this culture preaches us to beat a boy and a girl if they walk together. There should be liberty and freedm to express one's love and affection. Sometimes the policemen also act as moral police and they take undue advantage of their position. I sometimes feel that we, the common people live in virtual jail, we are either frightened by the might of police, if not, then surely by the goons and goondas and if this was not all that we wanted, we have one more thing to be scared of and it is Moral Policing.
I was shocked at seeing my country and my people behaving in this manner, but I can take solace as there are some people who do care about the liberty and freedom. In many cities, old people came out for peaceful protests again these moral police or in better words the hooligans.
On one hand our country wants to go forward and on the other hand these people are dragging it back, I sincerely hope that our government and our leaders will do something so that these hooligans can't take the liberty of doing whatever they feel like. These moral policemen should be prosecuted as criminals as they encroach on a person's right to live, which is a fundamental right of every citizen. If the police helps them and acts a moral police, a manner in which they have acted in the past, they should be dismissed from the duty as they are not the one to teach morality.
I hope a good sense prevails in everybody and they start loving each other instead of hating. They have made this wondeful day of love into a Hatred day or the H-Day. I request everybody to respect every culture and become more tolerant towards each other. Valentines day comes once in a year and it should be celebrated with great enthusiam, love and zeal, because only love can diminish distance between two hearts, only love can bring two people close, only love can connect two lives and only love can unite our India. Let's take our beloved nation forward and not backwards.
3 comments:
Thanks for such a beautiful blog. It is shameful to see such idiots who have no proper knowledge and rights to refuse other people to live life as they want. It is indeed a shame to admit that India being considered as one of the emerging world's super power, our country's law n order has gone down to such an extent that they cant stop whats really bad happening in the country like terrorism, rape, extortion, kidnapping etc and these police people have come on roads to tell the young generation not to be with people they want to be with. So whom should they spend time with? Coming out on roads and harassing couples on Valentines day is a shameful act of the police in India, our culture doesnt teach us to stop each other from loving anyone. In fact its such a beautiful day, when people express their love openly and expect the same in return. In this busy hectic life, who's got time to think what the other one is thinking, but this day reminds us of the importance of our people in our life. Its a shame to see the police and some so called political parties in India which act as if they are protecting our culture, the only thing that I can say is, Go mind your business, you have more important things to sort out first.
Long live the Valentine's day and the spirit of the day be seen in each day.
Kya bat hai toti .. you are completely right ... people in India just need a reason to oppose anything and everything .... and about valentine day its so disgusting that in india you can force someone to get married to a complete stranger but can not tolerate that two people should love each and express that in public ...
hmm you are absolutly right, I am not Indian but it is same also in another country. Good work my friend
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